ANALYZING A MEMOIR OF DISABILITY: UTILIZING A GROUP WRITING ASSIGNMENT TO INCREASE APPLICABILITY AND COMPREHENSION OF COURSE MATERIAL

Analyzing a memoir of disability: Utilizing a group writing assignment to increase applicability and comprehension of course material

"Analyzing a Memoir of Disability" is a semester-long project that promotes learning about disability and culture through group reading and writing about a single memoir.Students in an Introduction to Rehabilitation and Human Services course completed a textual analysis by using a memoir and course textbook to contextualize one another.Writing was

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The unseen epidemic: trauma and loneliness in urban midlife women

Abstract Background Connectedness and attachment are vital parts of humanity.Loneliness, a state of distress in reaction to perceived detachment and isolation, is reported by over one-third of U.S.adults and is associated with numerous physical and mental health consequences.What contributes to loneliness, especially in women and minority populatio

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Seasonal radial growth of black pine (Pinus nigra Arnold) from Bosnia and Herzegovina, monitored by the pinning method and manual band dendrometers

Despite numerous dendroclimatological investigations into different tree species from Bosnia and Herzegovina, information is lacking on intra-annual wood formation patterns, which would help us to interpret the climate signal in tree rings better.Using the pinning method and manual band dendrometers, we investigated the seasonal dynamics of radial

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The cut-off term in Arabic grammar

This research deals with the cut-off term grammatically.That term has been repeated in Arabic grammar and prosody sciences.The research tries to trace the cut-off term in grammar, stopping at four types: cut-off in exception, cut-off in addition, cut-off in the predicate invalidators, and cut-off in dependencies.The research found that the cut-off

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